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Name: TOSCANA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 24/01/1863
Completed: 1863
Builder: C Mitchell & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 109
Dimensions: 362grt, 234nrt, 149.0 x 25.0 x 16.4ft; (by 1890: 375grt, 172nrt, 170.2 x 23.0 x 15.1ft)
Engines: I2cyl (37.5 & 37.5 x 30ins), 90hp; (188x: C2cyl (23.5 & 44 x 30ins), 104nhp)
Engines by: R Stephenson & Co, Newcastle; (188x: P Ferro & Co, Genoa)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1863 Raffaele Rubattino & Co, Genoa
1881 Navigazione Generale Italiana, Palermo
1894 Soc Siciliana di Nav, Palermo
1907 Broken up
Comments: May have been renamed PRINCESS at some stage
Re-engined about 1883
28/12/1907: Damaged in a collision with SCHLESWIG near Faro Point
Beached to avoid sinking & subsequently broken up at Messina